Brush



(No Model.)

0. PEDERSON.

BRUSH.

No. 440,114. Patented 110V. 4, 1890.

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FFICE@ ATnNT CHICAGO, `ILLINOIS.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,114, dated November 4, 1890. Application tiled J une 26, 1890. Serial No. 356,777. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, OLE PEDERsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Moline, in the county of Rock Island and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brushes, of which the following is a full andclear description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, in Which- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved brush. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail showing one of the independent brushes removed.

My invention relates to brushes, and particularly to that class used for cleaning metal, wood, cloth, &c.; and my invention consists of the constructions and combinations of devices, which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now describe its construction and indicate the manner in which the same is carried out.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents an arbor provided with flanges or nuts @,between which the brush B is secured, said brush being securely Xed to the arbor, so that it may rotate Withit at a high rate of speed. The brush B consists of two end disks or flanges b, each of which is formed or provided with a double series of perforations cand CZ, respectively, andalso with aninwardly-extendinghub e, and between said disks or flanges the independent brushes are mounted. Each independent brush consists of a head C, which is formed with short pintles g on opposite sides, Which are designedto loosely tit the perforation in the disks,whereby the independent brushes have a free movement about these pintles. Each head is also formed with sockets h, in which the wires D or bristles, strips of leather, or analogous material are arranged in tufts, the inner bent ends being fitted in the base of the sockets, and held therein by the pins Z, which are passed transversely through the head and the bent portions of the tufts of wires therein.

assume the position shown in Fig. 1.

By mounting the heads loosely Within and between the disks h the independent brushes 5o work freely and hang doWn,rest-ing upon each other when the brush is idle; but when the brush is rotated the centrifugal force causes their outer ends to be thrown outward and to This 5 5 construction enables the brush to be used for a greater length of time than when they are rigidly held and reduces the wearing and breaking of the same to a minimum, as the brushes readily yield to any irregularity in 6o the surface of the part being operated upon.

By using the double series of perforations for the journals of the brushes and arranging them in the manner shown the independent brushes are prevented from striking each other while in operation and shorter lengths of wires may be used.

A brush constructed as described will thoroughly clean metal plates, Wood, cloth, and like articles very quickly, and may be read- 7o ily taken apart and any one or more of the independent brushes or tufts of wire removed and new ones substituted.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 7 5 Patent, is

1. A metal or other cleaning-brush consisting of two transversely-perforated end disks, the heads C, mounted between said disks and having sockets 71 and short pintles 8o loosely fitted in the perforations, whereby said heads have a free pivotal movement, and tufts of Wires secured in said sockets, substantially as herein described.

2. In a brush having separable end disks provided with a double series of perforations, pivoted heads mounted between said disks, having sockets for the reception of tufts of abrading material, and short pintles fitted in the perforations in the disks, substantially as 9o herein described.

OLE PEDERSON.

Witnesses:

MIEAR PEDERsoN, L. S. ONEILL. 

